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This was to describe the sharp division of Europe that was the result of Soviet actions.
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Marshall Plan, names after U.S. scretary of state George Marshall, provided $13 billion for rebuilding Europe.
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Societs blocked off all land, rail, and water routes into West Berlin. As a result, Berlin's 2 million residents were no longer able to import food, coal and other vital supplies.
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Space would become another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and by extension its political economic system.
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The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary.
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Officials had believed the Bay of Pigs invasion would start a massive Cuban uorising afainst Castro. Insted the incaders were quickly defeated.
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the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin.
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Richard Nixon was elected U.S, president. He sougth what he called detente or reduced tension between the superpowers.
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the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin.
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The Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom.
